The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1887-02-04

Reagan was reelected Senator from
Texas on the thirty-f first ballot.
II we can't print school books In Oregon
Il is about time we learned how.
Ithreported that Seattle Is poverty strick'
en, but this Il probably an exaggeration.
An effort Is being made to have life
saving station established at Yaqnina Bay
Roberts, the Representative about which
the scandal was reported,wa exoneratcd by
the committee.
About 400 bills have been introduced In
the State Legislature, only fraction OF
which will or should pass
Mayor Harrison, Of Chicago,has been sued
for $4,000 for injuring the eyes OF boy
with a fire cracker on July sth, 1885,
The office of Sheriff of Multnomah
county Is worth about SIT 900 and OF clerk
5000 year that OF Governor OF Ore
gon $I,Soo'
Miss Van Zandt and Spies were married
by proxy last Monday near Chicago but
that style Is a relic OF barbarous days and Is
obsolete now.
The Willamette FarMey, of Salem, Is can.
did indeed. II admits that II owes $1,000
and insists on Us subscribers paying up,and
they ought to do Il.
Parliament opened on Thursday Of last
week with speech from Queen Vic. She
said her relations with foreign powers was
friendly. Forsooth Il Is not.
] Seiigman, New York capitalist and
part owner In Montana mine, last week,
was imprisoned in mine and held until
the wages Of the miners,about $7s,ooo. were
paid.
Murder l. rife In San Francisco. Last
week a crank entered a saloon and shot a
stranger dead because he imagined he was
a consplrator against his life. Justice Is
stranger to the Golden Gate City. The bal.
ance Is "busted"
None OF the little jobs for appropriating
the states moneys for building private school
houses, county bridges and county roads
will pass In the present Legislature. Linn
county's representatives have been solid In
both houses against such bills.
A sensation has been started over the
finding of Brigham Young resurrected.
The report Is so foolish that We only make
a mere statement of the fact The Amer
lean people like to be humbuggcd but
this Is all together to immense canard
A Dallas man recently drew $500 in the
Louisiana Lottery. Such cases aIe rare,
though. The Dallas paper estimates that
$Ioo a month Is speit In that city In lottery
tickets. A poor way TO invest money, as
this lottery Is undoubtedly one Of the most
colossal swindles on record.
The Salem Pideffs pays the following
compliment TO three Senators During the
debate yesterday, on the repeal of the usury
laws, Senators ID. w. Hare. ]. X. Weather
ford and r. NJ. Vealch, who spoke In oppo-
sition to the repeal, made some telling re-
marks and displayed forensic abilities that
would be credit to any member oi the
United States Senate.
The following Is going the rounds OF the
press A sleeper Is one who sleeps. A
sleeper Is that IN which the sleeper sleeps.
A sleeper Is that on which the sleeper which
carries the sleeper while he sleeps runs.
Therefore, while the sleeper sleeps in the
sleeper, the sleeper carries the sleeper over
the sleeper under the sleeper until the sleep
er which carries the sleeper jumps of the
sleeper and wakes the sleeper in the sleeper
by striking the sleeper under the sleeper,
and there Is no longer any sleeper sleeping
in the sleeper on the sleeper"